Plane arrests in Amsterdam

Its sad that people get paranoid for the wrong reasons. Over the years, its sad how often I have been profiled for the color of my skin.... I sympathise with these people - strangely for both parties. In today's world it does not help not being cautious.

Read more at news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sou...

Also, Schneier's blog has an interesting set of chronology of related events and overreaction. KDS has a funny set of air travel instructions for travellers (such as myself)

Ya Who? Finally Yahoo invests in cutting edge research

Today's Wall Street Journal says that Yahoo is out on the prowl for academics to boost their research efforts. One word - Finally ! Its sad to see a company like Yahoo languish - inspite of their amazing suite of offerings. Its high time Yahoo started taking research seriously and start improving their offerings. The once poster child of search, Yahoo has almost gone into oblivion. Its nice to see this renewed focus on technology and not just another slew of poorly marketed products.

My recent forray into newer and cool offering from Yahoo like Yahoo Tech and Yahoo Video and event tools from Yahoo Labs like Mindset and MyWeb make me believe that Yahoo is still out there - but somehow they don't seem to get the media visibility they are due. Everything is about Google these days - but one may argue to the efficacy of some of the non-search products from Google - whatever happened to Google Finance and Orkut? (Its ironic that I am using Google's Blogger to make this point).

Now, I'll certainly be happy to see more work coming out of Yahoo Research organization. I look forward to more results coming out of their new recruits in the coming months...